Details about when such a search could take place with corpse dogs would not be known immediately, although this could be next week.
The extremities and the head of Giddings were never found. The police discovered its upper body in a flip-top roller waste after she had disappeared from the apartments at the end of June 2011, where she and her attacker were in a Hillside complex with a view of the city center of Macon. The apartments outside the campus, which are known as a lawyer hall, are opposite Walter F. George School of Law from Mercer.
Over the years, Giddings' murder in television programs with “Dateline NBC” was presented prominently.
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Her murderer Stephen Mark McDaniel, now 39, committed himself guilty in April 2014 and served a lifelong prison sentence with the possibility of probation. In a written explanation that was submitted as part of his plea, McDaniel, Giddings, admitted after breaking into her apartment. He wrote that he cut off her limbs and turned her head up with a hack saw and then wrapped them in garbage bags to throw them in a dumpster outside the legal faculty.
According to statements from an appeal hearing in 2018, McDaniel told his lawyers that he carved himself from his fingers and thrown them over a toilet.
Giddings, native Maryland and aluminum of the Agnes Scott College, was 27 when she was killed.
Your family and others near you have never given up finding their remains. The authorities have also searched a landfill.
One of her closest friends from her studies at Agnes Scott, Kristin S. Tucker, told the Atlanta Journal Constitution on Friday that the new tip came in a Facebook message to Giddings' Sister Kaitlyn Wheeler in Maryland.
The news of March 4 came from a woman whose family owned property near McDaniel's deceased grandfather. The country is located on the Flint River south of the city of Molena between Macon and Lagrange.
The area is of interest to the Giddings family because McDaniel traveled there for a week or two before Giddings disappeared, although the authorities have never searched for their remains there.
Tucker said that the tipper claimed that McDaniel's grandfather and another person allegedly went to Macon after the death of Giddings and had returned with “trash can”. The owner of a property alongside McDaniel's grandfather Farm later noticed a disturbed dirt on an old family cemetery on his own property, said Tucker, who is accepted as the center of the upcoming search.
In documents or certificates in connection with the Giddings case, no word of these claims appeared. Neither McDaniel's grandfather who died in 2012 nor someone else was a role in the disposal of the remains of Giddings.
Nevertheless, the relatives of Giddings asked themselves for a long time whether their remains in Pike County could be hidden, although McDaniel's statement that he disposed of the extremities in a Macon waste bin.
Wheeler, sister of Giddings, said on Friday by phone: “I will not say that we have the most hope, but we do not leave anything unturned.”
Wheeler said: “It is proof that we will never give up. … My parents, that is your baby, your child. You want your whole body back so that you have a peaceful, proper funeral.”
